We usually never got out of there before four or five o'clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough.

People sometimes forget that jazz was built not only in the minds of the great ones but on the backs of the ordinary ones — ordinary musicians.

And then there's my Grandson: He's certainly got the music together, there's just no question about it.

Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.

Everybody that you could name would join in our audiences from, Laguardia on down. Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.

Pass that thing, slightly, lightly and politely.

Everybody did something. It was very entertaining. We had a lot of fun. Lot of fun. And there was no segregation, that I could see. I never saw any

What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't

You don't think it was because a white man wrote it, a black man wrote it, a green man wrote it. What-doesn't make a difference!

A movie and a stage show are two entirely different things. A picture, you can do anything you want. Change it, cut out a scene, put in a scene, take a scene out. They don't do that on stage

A phoenix ain't nuthin' but a burd.

Yet verily these issues lie on the lap of the gods.

I never knew how good it is to be unknown until now. The last time I was unknown I was too busy trying to become known to realize the advantages of obscurity.

I won't swim in a pool by myself, because I think that somehow a little magic door is going to open up and let a shark out.

The fact is, almost everything you do is collaborative. Somewhere out there, someone else had a hand it it.

No one is born hating others.

We all scribble poetry.

Well, now there's a remedy for everything except death.

Why kick the man downstream who can't put the parts together because the parts really weren't designed properly?

Do not be afraid of what God asks of you! It is worth saying 'yes' to God. In him we find joy.

Strangers see you the way you want them to see you. You can't fool friends…that's what makes them friends... Pretty Little Liars